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Jason Pontin

General Partner, DCVC

Palo Alto, California

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Work Experience

2021

  • General Partner

    2023

  • Partner

    2021 - 2023

    DCVC backs brilliant entrepreneurs applying Deep Tech, from the earliest stage and beyond, to pragmatically and cost-effectively tackle previously unsolvable problems in nearly every industry.

  • Board Chair

    2023

    Kanvas's novel spatial biology plat­form enables an unprece­dent­ed under­stand­ing of host-micro­bio­me inter­ac­tion and pro­vides an effi­cient approach to drug discovery for live biological products.

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

    Recycleye sells AI robotics and computer vision technologies for innovative waste and materials management.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Aquafortus was founded in New Zealand to develop and commercialize a novel and proprietary zero liquid discharge technology that can treat high salinity wastewater at a fraction of the cost of current processes.

  • Board Chair

    2022

    DVLP is building a new infrastructure for drug development on the blockchain. By digitizing drug assets, financing, and development workflows, we are reimagining and accelerating the entire process to turn more molecules into medicines.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Relation is pioneering a “Lab-in-the-Loop” that can integrate active learning at every step of drug discovery, from predicting cell states to the validation of new targets.

2022

  • Board Chair

    2022

    ZwitterCo's zwitterionic membranes can handle unprecedented levels of oil and grease without irreversible fouling, recovering full performance.

  • Board Chair

    2021

    A breakthrough technology for continuous health monitoring, more than a decade in development at Helmholtz Institute and Caltech, now in commercial development, which will allow people to be better stewards of their own health.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Evonetix is reimagining biology by developing a radically different approach to gene synthesis – a highly parallel desktop platform to synthesize DNA at unprecedented accuracy, scale and speed. The company's platform will place DNA synthesis in the hands of every researcher and change how DNA is accessed, made, and used—a new paradigm for gene synthesis.

  • Founding Board Member, Cofounder, and Initial Investor (through Social Impact Capital)

    2019

    Applying revolutionary chemical biology technologies to create life-changing covalent therapeutics for untreatable diseases.